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#Boston Election Department switching over fully to electronic poll-books; I hope they know what they’re doing!

Using electronic poll-books at 275 precincts on election day is a much heavier lift than using them at ten early-voting locations. I hope they've covered all their bases!

blog.kamens.us/2025/07/07/bost…
#BostonMA #elections #voting #pollWorker

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in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47

Wow. As someone who is also a poll worker and gets very grumpy with the paper books, this nonetheless seems like potentially a really large issue, I'm curious to hear what you find out at your training.
in reply to Jessamyn

@jessamyn I can tell you this much: there have *absolutely* been horror stories in the news about electronic poll-books in various jurisdictions failing on election day and making people unable to vote.
The fact of the matter is, barring fire or flood, it's essentially impossible for paper poll-books to "fail". The same absolutely cannot be said for electronic poll-books.
We'll see what they say at the training!
in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47

I attended #Boston #PollWorker training today, and after hearing what they have to say about the new electronic poll books, I am much less worried that they could prevent people from voting or allow people to vote who shouldn't. I do, however, have some remaining concerns. See my new write-up at blog.kamens.us/2025/07/21/city… .
#BostonMA #elections #voting



🚀 ¡CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA - UbuCon Latinoamérica 2025! 🇪🇨

¿Eres apasionado del software libre y Ubuntu? ¡Esta es tu oportunidad de brillar!

La 10ma edición de UbuCon Latinoamérica llega a Cuenca, Ecuador los días 15 y 17 de octubre de 2025, y estamos buscando ponentes excepcionales que quieran compartir su conocimiento con la comunidad más grande de Ubuntu en la región.

🎯 ¿En qué temas puedes participar?
- Inteligencia Artificial y Machine Learning
- Contenedores y Kubernetes
- Seguridad informática y ciberseguridad
- Desarrollo de software libre
- DevOps y automatización
- IoT y hardware abierto
- Educación tecnológica
- Cloud computing

📍 Cuenca, Ecuador - La ciudad patrimonio cultural te espera para esta experiencia única.

📧 ¿Listo para postular?

Envía tu propuesta a: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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La imagen es un póster promocional para la convocatoria abierta a ponencias del evento UbuCon Latinoamérica, en su 10ma edición. El fondo es de color morado con un diseño gráfico que incluye una ilustración de una catedral con cúpulas azules y detalles arquitectónicos en tonos naranja y beige, situada en la parte inferior. En la parte superior izquierda, se encuentra el logotipo de UbuCon Latinoamérica 10ma edición, con el texto "OCTUBRE 16 y 17-2025 CUENCA, ECUADOR" a su lado. En el centro, en letras grandes y blancas, se lee "Convocatoria Abierta a Ponencias". A la derecha, hay un cuadro con el texto "¡Regístrate aquí!" y un código QR. Debajo, se indica "Inscríbete y envía tu propuesta ingresando al enlace". En la parte inferior, se muestran los logotipos de los organizadores: Universidad del Azuay, Canonical Ubuntu, Fundación OpenLab y Ubuntu - EC. A la izquierda, se lee "INVITAN:". El texto "¡POSTULA!" está escrito verticalmente a la derecha del póster.

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- I love that artstyle! Don’t know how to describe it exactly but I’m feeling it!




Cuál es el punto de este artículo cuando el Google Pixel no lo usa el 99% de los criminales? Lol

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"The Revolution Failed: Notes From the End of a Political Project
As the American Empire declines, we must wrestle with where the United States of America succeeded and, unfortunately, where it ultimately failed"
-Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/…

#Fascism #DonaldTrump #Corruption
#USpol





Well. Half-frame is popular. So, here is another one, this time from Eric Woods. He did a review of Kentmere 200, but in this article talks about his Rollei 35 LED half-frame camera. #believeinfilm #analogphotography
ewoodsphoto.com/2025/06/23/one…


@pluralistic you’ve been enshrined by the team at Wankernomics:

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Kristi Noem pouting about missing the MacArthur Park photo op traumatizing kids at camp. [Graphic design is my passion.]


Runrig Hearts Of Olden Glory

#alexv1

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100 years of June sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. Note the long-term warming (climate change) and other patterns of variability (e.g., El Niño/La Niña). Our oceans are accumulating a lot of excess heat!

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data…



Some personal news: I have ceased to be a human being endowed with a soul and instead become an unpaid intern for the coffee and tea company Keats and Co., which donates 100% of its profit to tuberculosis care. Better coffee and tea that's better for the world: good.store/collections/all-kea…



Mick Fleetwood And Friends - Albatross

#alexv1

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They have become “skin and bones.” Hundreds of infants in Gaza face death due to a lack of milk dailyyemen.net/2025/07/07/they…


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Why Chinese Open Source AI Model Will Win Over American OpenAI [20:37 | JUL 07 2025 | Carl Zha]


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32632260

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32631687
Generated Summary below:

Video Desceiption:

Carl Zha talks to AI expert TP Huang on why Chinese Open Source AI Models will win over US closed OpenAI in global adoption of Chinese AI #china #techwar #deepseek

You can follow TP Huang on Twitter:
/ tphuang
Subscribe to TP Huang's Substack:
tphuang.substack.com/

You can follow Carl Zha on Twitter:
/ carlzha


Generated Summary:

Main Topic: The AI race between the US and China, focusing on the potential for Chinese open-source AI models like Deepseek to surpass US closed models like OpenAI.

Key Points:

  • AI Arms Race: The discussion highlights the view that the US and China are in an AI arms race, with significant implications for global dominance.
  • Deepseek Ban: There's concern about a potential US ban on Chinese AI models like Deepseek, similar to the TikTok ban, driven by Silicon Valley lobbying.
  • Open Source vs. Closed Models: The advantages of open-source AI models are emphasized, including cost-effectiveness, the ability to run locally without sending data to external servers, and customization to remove censorship.
  • OpenAI's Limitations: Concerns are raised about OpenAI's reliability (downtime) and data privacy practices, making open-source alternatives more appealing for certain applications.
  • Global Adoption: It's argued that countries and companies outside the US may prefer Chinese open-source AI due to cost, control, and the ability to tailor the models to their specific needs and cultures.
  • Economic Implications: Restricting access to open-source AI models in the US could put American companies at a disadvantage compared to their global competitors.
  • AI Hype and Investment: The discussion touches on the current AI hype and whether the downstream is paying for AI right now.

Highlights:

  • The potential for a bifurcated world with US AI and Chinese AI dominating different regions.
  • The observation that Deepseek's release wiped out $1.5 trillion off the US stock market in a single day.
  • The point that open-source models allow users to avoid sending data to OpenAI and customize the model to remove unwanted censorship.
  • The suggestion that the US political landscape is influenced by Silicon Valley's financial contributions.

About Channel:

Host Silk & Steel Podcast on China, history, culture, politics @SteelSilkn




Why Chinese Open Source AI Model Will Win Over American OpenAI [20:37 | JUL 07 2025 | Carl Zha]


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32631687

Generated Summary below:

Video Desceiption:

Carl Zha talks to AI expert TP Huang on why Chinese Open Source AI Models will win over US closed OpenAI in global adoption of Chinese AI #china #techwar #deepseek

You can follow TP Huang on Twitter:
/ tphuang
Subscribe to TP Huang's Substack:
tphuang.substack.com/

You can follow Carl Zha on Twitter:
/ carlzha


Generated Summary:

Main Topic: The AI race between the US and China, focusing on the potential for Chinese open-source AI models like Deepseek to surpass US closed models like OpenAI.

Key Points:

  • AI Arms Race: The discussion highlights the view that the US and China are in an AI arms race, with significant implications for global dominance.
  • Deepseek Ban: There's concern about a potential US ban on Chinese AI models like Deepseek, similar to the TikTok ban, driven by Silicon Valley lobbying.
  • Open Source vs. Closed Models: The advantages of open-source AI models are emphasized, including cost-effectiveness, the ability to run locally without sending data to external servers, and customization to remove censorship.
  • OpenAI's Limitations: Concerns are raised about OpenAI's reliability (downtime) and data privacy practices, making open-source alternatives more appealing for certain applications.
  • Global Adoption: It's argued that countries and companies outside the US may prefer Chinese open-source AI due to cost, control, and the ability to tailor the models to their specific needs and cultures.
  • Economic Implications: Restricting access to open-source AI models in the US could put American companies at a disadvantage compared to their global competitors.
  • AI Hype and Investment: The discussion touches on the current AI hype and whether the downstream is paying for AI right now.

Highlights:

  • The potential for a bifurcated world with US AI and Chinese AI dominating different regions.
  • The observation that Deepseek's release wiped out $1.5 trillion off the US stock market in a single day.
  • The point that open-source models allow users to avoid sending data to OpenAI and customize the model to remove unwanted censorship.
  • The suggestion that the US political landscape is influenced by Silicon Valley's financial contributions.

About Channel:

Host Silk & Steel Podcast on China, history, culture, politics @SteelSilkn



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🚨 Karoline Leavitt PANICS after she’s CAUGHT LYING about Epstein. Via @briantylercohen #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️

🚨 Karoline Leavitt PANICS afte...




those tedious fuckwads finally gave up on the ridiculous shoe removal thing

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Compost maturing in the pallet bays. I find making compost a very therapeutic process. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Allotment


Headless brush turkeys sitting in the tree

Hugz & xXx

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Via Brad Moss:

The mask is off.

Christian fanaticism is here.

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/poli…

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in reply to Laffy

yeah I mean they were doing it, it’s just now out in the open


Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care

#alexv1

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This week I’ve been bitten by a giant centipede* and swarmed by a battalion of Polistes carolina wasps**; my normal laissez-faire policy with respect to the arthropods, winged or otherwise, is wearing thin.

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* OUCH do not recommend. Like a rookie fool, I’d omitted to check my boots for crawlies before putting’em on. About a quarter mile into my hike I detected a horrible, sharp pain in my foot. Pulled off the boot, expecting a piddly little scorpion. Butnno. It was a goddam *Scolopendra heros*, a Giant Texas Centipede.

Reader, it takes a lot to squick me out, but I have no stomach for giant centipedes. They’re just too goddang big, are too venomous, and have too many fucking legs.

Gripped with pain and irrational panic, I screamed like a city girl, splatted my ass down on the rain-soaked dirt, and pulled off my centipede-encrusted sock in about .04 seconds (the dog nose in the photo belongs to my feral Pomeranian, who enjoyed every second of this embarrassing display a little too much). I then defeatedly limped home in the rain, rapidly losing feeling in my big toe. It took about 5 hours for the pain to subside. These fucken things are no joke. Although, like all my doofy encounters with creepy wildlife, the tableau was comical AF.

** It’d been so long since I’d driven my own car off the farm that a colony of paper wasps had had time to build a whole-ass nest in the space between my driver’s side door and the fender.

I’d boarded the car without incident and driven into town, not having noticed the nest. Did my errand. But upon my return to the car, the wasps were by now kinda cheesed off. To my enormous surprise, an entire buttload of sting-y insects buzzed out of my car door at once and bounced into my face.

Pretty sure I did some hilarious and awkward anti-wasp-swarm moves in the parking lot while attempting to cognitively reconcile this unnatural state of affairs with any possible reality. It was only then that I noticed the nest and grasped the gist. When I got home (unstung, by some miracle), there were a bunch of panicked wasps buzzing around the carport, searching for their recent nest. So many of their compatriots had flown off in that parking lot 8 miles away! It was an emotional rollercoaster for all concerned.

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Took off from San Jose, California, United States.


Slade - Run Runaway

#alexv1

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Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview. Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
in reply to Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@Crell I found an article about her situation. She and her husband were even Trump supporters.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…



If Biden were still President during this flood, the Republican Party (and most of the media and a lot of other people for that matter) would be nonstop screaming about how it’s a Democrat’s fault and saying where is FEMA or blaming a Cabinet member and they would never stop so fuck off, Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz warns against 'partisan games' amid Texas flooding tragedy:
usatoday.com/videos/news/polit…

in reply to Tony, Pretty Much

It is also a local government issue to warn people about weather disasters so additionally fuck off, Kristi Noem and a last fuck off to anyone going on about “act of god.”

I don’t believe in one anyway, but if I did, an act of god should be funding government services and having services that warn people about evacuation in deadly weather. You’re an asshole if you think an act of god includes kid drowning.



Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 1974

#alexv1

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It makes me so angry that @stux has to constantly beg users for help to keep that instance going.

The man has to pay rent besides running mstdn.social. It just isn't fair to him. Mstdn.Social has 13,000+ users. If every user paid JUST $1 each month, he could do that full time, and mstdn would have the latest, greatest servers.

But no.

That's an important node on the Fediverse, and 13,000 people will be sorry when it folds because you didn't support it.

Step up. mstdn.social/about

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in reply to Wolf

I will not support censorship

Give to fsebugoutzone.org instead

freezepeach.social/



Today I got up and dressed and left the house early.. I had my laser appointment at 9.30am, and then was attending an art show at Girrawaa Aboriginal Art Centre.

...except that my laser appointment is tomorrow morning.

...and the art show is on Saturday.

I don't think my dyslexia and dyscalculia has ever so thoroughly kicked my arse before.

_____

*Girrawaa is the Aboriginal Art Centre at Bathurst prison. They're having an art show to showcase the art work of some of the people in prison there. There are going to be framed and unframed works available for sale.

The proceeds from the sales goes to the artist, with 20% being kept by the centre to purchase art supplies (paint, canvases, materials etc) for the artists to use in the centre.

If you're in the area, it's definitely worth checking out!

#audhd #autism #adhd #disability #neurodiverse #dyslexia #dyscalculia #Aboriginal #Indigenous #art #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #Australia



#gazetadobrasil #jornalismo #noticias #politics Israel Confirma Bombardeios Contra Infraestrutura Houthi no Iêmen gazetabrasil.com.br/mundo/2025…



Multipolarity Is Reality — BRICS Must Reflect Changing World — Lavrov sputnikglobe.com/20250707/mult…



Presidio per salvare la redazione di Viareggio de Il Tirreno
Da oggi chiusa la sede storica di Via Coppino. Assemblea aperta dei redattori del quotidiano per chiedere alla SAE Editori di ritirare la decisione. Sabato scorso il primo dei cinque giorni di sciopero proclamati. Pronte altre iniziative. Il sostegno di lettori e istituzioni

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Spent 10 suffocating hours sailing through a thick fogbank that sucked out all the colors, only to emerge in bright sun over jade silt.
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"Don’t put this on God. You had plenty of warnings this might happen, and you chose to ignore them. You chose to leave the people you’re sworn to serve in the most vulnerable circumstances. You chose to risk danger befalling them."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p…



More from roll of Kodak Tmax taken in May 1996, probably with a Pentax K1000. First two photos were printed as contact sheets, scanned, and flipped. Last photo is larger print cut out and pasted in sketchbook, unflipped. Probably printed in fall 1996, during my first semester in college. Original negatives are long gone.

Me and a friend; I have no idea who took this photo, but I do remember this outfit and those hot pink sunglasses.

#blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitefilmphotography #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #kodaktmax400 #kodakfilm #vintagephotos #1990s



#NEA #Palestine #genocide #gaza #zionismisnazism #unions #bds

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Pentax K-5 II, lens HD Pentax-FA 35mm f2, postprocessing in dxoPhotolab 8.

#photography #pentax



Welp. We it all collapses, at least it will ALL collapse.
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:alvek…

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STATEMENT – Washington’s Criminality: Trumps Strengthening of Policy of the United States Toward Cuba #Cuba canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/2025/…
#cuba


#BCC285 - Novela da Avibras: final feliz?

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> Veja neste programa que a justiça homologou a proposta alternativa para recuperação judicial da Avibras e, caso não haja reversão em outras instâncias, a Bra...

#BrasilComCiência

in reply to Tiago F

A imagem mostra uma fábrica de veículos militares, com várias máquinas e veículos de combate em diferentes estágios de montagem. A fábrica é grande e bem iluminada, com um teto alto e uma estrutura industrial. No centro da imagem, há uma série de veículos militares verde-oliva, alguns em processo de montagem e outros já completos. Ao fundo, é possível ver mais veículos e equipamentos, além de algumas pessoas trabalhando. No canto superior esquerdo, há um texto em destaque que diz "Avibras: novela com final feliz?" em letras grandes e coloridas. No canto inferior esquerdo, há o logotipo do site "Brasil com Ciência". A imagem transmite uma sensação de produção e tecnologia, com uma atmosfera organizada e profissional.

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🇪🇺 The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 • Techradar

「 The EU Commission presented a Roadmap on how it intends to ensure that law enforcement has effective and lawful access to citizens' data
Politicians seek to establish a precedent for the decryption of private data
The Roadmap is part of the ProtectEU strategy, first unveiled in April 2025 」

techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-…

#eu #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity